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May 18, 2014: Erika served as a fiction panelist at the first The Whole Megillah Conference on Jewish Story in New York.

May 3, 2014: Erika will moderated a session on “After the MFA: Constructing & Leading a Writing Life” at Grub Street’s The Muse & the Marketplace conference in Boston.

April 6, 2014: Erika visited a private group to discuss Quiet Americans.

October 23, 2013: As guest speaker, Erika helped launch the Scarsdale (N.Y.) Public Library Writers Center Professional Series. The topic of her talk: “Mapping the Changing Publishing Marketplace.”

August 2013: Erika was a guest faculty member at the Whidbey Writers Workshop Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program fall residency, teaching sessions on freelance writing and fiction writing.

May 4-5, 2013: Erika was Boston-bound for Grub Street’s The Muse & the Marketplace conference, where she moderated a panel titled “Grubbie Guide to Contests, Conferences & Residencies” that featured authors Sheri Joseph and Douglas Trevor.

May 18, 2011: Erika visited (via telephone) with a synagogue book group to discuss Quiet Americans. (Want to invite Erika to participate in your book club’s meeting? Please click here.)

May 5, 2011: Conference on German-Speaking Jews in New York City: Their Immigration and Lasting Presence (Baruch College of The City University of New York & The Leo Baeck Institute). (Watch a video recording of Erika’s presentation: She’s introduced 31 minutes into the session.)

January 19, 2011: Quiet Americans was released!

December 1-Sunday, December 19, 2010: The first Quiet Americans giveaway on Goodreads (three copies!) took place. Two more copies went to fans of our Facebook page!

About Erika Dreifus

Erika Dreifus is the author of Quiet Americans: Stories (Last Light Studio), which is an ALA Sophie Brody Medal Honor Title for outstanding Jewish literature. Quiet Americans was also named a Notable Book (The Jewish Journal) and a Top Small-Press Book (Shelf Unbound). Erika is a contributing editor for Fiction Writers Review and an advisory board member for J Journal: New Writing on Justice, and she wrote the section on “Choosing a Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing” for the second edition of Tom Kealey’s Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). Erika is also the editor/publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter featuring advice, opportunities, and resources on the craft and business of writing for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.

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Quiet Americans - Stories by Erika Dreifus

A high-ranking Nazi’s wife and a Jewish doctor in prewar Berlin. A Jewish immigrant soldier and the German POWs he is assigned to supervise. A refugee returning to Europe for the first time just as terrorists massacre Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A son of survivors and the family secrets modern technology may reveal. These are some of the characters and conflicts that emerge in Quiet Americans, in stories that reframe familiar questions about what is right and wrong, remembered and repressed, resolved and unending. Portions of the proceeds from sales of Quiet Americans are being donated to The Blue Card. Quiet Americans has been named a 2012 Sophie Brody Medal Honor Title (American Library Association) and recognized as a “Notable Book” (The Jewish Journal) and “Top Book” (Shelf Unbound).

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